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“On Recognition of “Delivery Specifications for Imported Equipment, Products, and Components for Nuclear Facilities, Radiation Sources, and Storage Facilities in the Russian Federation” to be exempted from application and “Recommendations on Organization and Conduct of Administrative Control over the State of Accounting and Control of Nuclear Materials” is coming into effect.

The document provides the definition of the term of Technical and Scientific Support Organization and contains the full description of TSO functions, challenges and activities of different in type TSOs supporting the regulatory bodies.

The working meeting on regulatory issues associated with nuclear security and management of radiation sources organized by the Spanish Nuclear Safety Council (CSN) and Federal Environmental, Industrial and Nuclear Supervision Service (Rostechnadzor) took place on February 27, 2018 in Madrid, Spain.

The Safety Guide provides recommendations of the Federal Environmental, Industrial and Nuclear Supervision Service of Russia on accounting of material in the course of physical inventory in material balance areas and on the analysis of the inventory results.

On December 21, 2017 the State Duma has considered and adopted in the first reading the draft of the Federal Law No.313278-7 “On Introduction of Changes to the Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation in the Part of Regulation of Safety Issues in the Field of Atomic Energy Use” submitted by the Government of the Russian Federation.

The document stipulates the requirements to lifetime extension of a NPP power unit, specifically to: the integrated survey of a NPP power unit in the course of preparation to lifetime extension of a NPP unit; the criteria of possibility to operate a NPP unit within the period of the extended lifetime; the requirements to lifetime extension of a NPP components beyond the limits of the assigned lifetime of a NPP unit; the requirements to justification of the extended lifetime of a NPP unit; the requirements to preparation of a NPP unit to the extended lifetime.